4 The 3270 is the classic 'green-screen' console of the mainframes (see the
5 `IBM 3270 Wikipedia article <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270>`__).
7 The 3270 data stream is not implemented within QEMU; the device only provides
8 TN3270 (a telnet extension; see `RFC 854 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc854>`__
9 and `RFC 1576 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1576>`__) and leaves the heavy
10 lifting to an external 3270 terminal emulator (such as ``x3270``) to make a
11 single 3270 device available to a guest. Note that this supports basic
14 To provide a 3270 device to a guest, create a ``x-terminal3270`` linked to
15 a ``tn3270`` chardev. The guest will see a 3270 channel device. In order
16 to actually be able to use it, attach the ``x3270`` emulator to the chardev.
21 * Make sure that 3270 support is enabled in the guest's Linux kernel. You need
22 ``CONFIG_TN3270`` and at least one of ``CONFIG_TN3270_TTY`` (for additional
23 ttys) or ``CONFIG_TN3270_CONSOLE`` (for a 3270 console).
25 * Add a ``tn3270`` chardev and a ``x-terminal3270`` to the QEMU command line::
27 -chardev socket,id=ch0,host=0.0.0.0,port=2300,nowait,server,tn3270
28 -device x-terminal3270,chardev=ch0,devno=fe.0.000a,id=terminal0
30 * Start the guest. In the guest, use ``chccwdev -e 0.0.000a`` to enable
33 * On the host, start the ``x3270`` emulator::
37 * In the guest, locate the 3270 device node under ``/dev/3270/`` (say,
38 ``tty1``) and start a getty on it::
40 systemctl start serial-getty@3270-tty1.service
42 This should get you an additional tty for logging into the guest.
44 * If you want to use the 3270 device as the Linux kernel console instead of
45 an additional tty, you can also append ``conmode=3270 condev=000a`` to
46 the guest's kernel command line. The kernel then should use the 3270 as
47 console after the next boot.
52 3270 support is very basic. In particular:
54 * Only one 3270 device is supported.
56 * It has only been tested with Linux guests and the x3270 emulator.
58 * TLS/SSL is not supported.
60 * Resizing on reattach is not supported.
62 * Multiple commands in one inbound buffer (for example, when the reset key
63 is pressed while the network is slow) are not supported.